Background

Mr. Charles B. Crawford, Jr. also known as Charlie serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Private Bank of Buckhead. Mr. Crawford has been in banking for 25 years. He organized Private Bank of Buckhead and its holding company Private Bancshares, Inc. He started his banking career in New York with Bankers Trust Company and later spent 10 years with Bank South in Atlanta. In 1996, He started The Buckhead Bank and in 2001, Riverside Bank of Buckhead. ... He is on the Board of the Georgia Tennis Foundation and the Atlanta Track Club, for which he serves as President. He serves as Treasurer of the Buckhead Coalition and serves as its Director. He also is a member of the Board of Advisors for the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, is on the Board of Councilors for The Carter Center and serves on the board of McKenney’s, an Atlanta-based company that is one of the largest mechanical contractors in the United States. Mr. Crawford serves as an Executive Officer and Director of Private Bancshares, Inc. He serves as a Member of Board of Councilors at The Carter Center Inc. He serves as a member of the Young President’ Association, is Assistant District Governor for Rotary District 6900 and is a past president of the Rotary Club of Buckhead. He is frequently quoted about banking and related topics, in media outlets ranging from the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to BusinessWeek and CreditCards.com. In November 2011, he was presented with the 2011 Robinson Alumni Entrepreneurship Award and In September 2011 of that year he was among the 55 nominees for the 2011 Leadership Character Award, Chief Executive Officer, President and Managing Partner category, in the prestigious Turknett Leadership Character Awards. In January 2011, he was selected by the Buckhead Business Association as the 2010 honoree for the Bullish on Buckhead Award. And, in 2010, Business to Business magazine and accounting partner, Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen, selected him among the Top 25 Entrepreneurs of the Year. Mr. Crawford has undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School of Business and received his MBA at Georgia State University. He also is a graduate of the LSU School of Banking and Leadership Atlanta in 2005.

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